Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-22
IT WILL NOT DOWN.
The Liquor Question is Getting to be Awk-
ward i'm Politics.

The Liquor Question is Getting to be Awk-
ward in Politics.
This liquor question will not down.
that is evident. The politicians are all
coming to see it. 1t is getting to be
very awkward question in politics.
Awkward issues for politicians means
simply issues that endanger the party.
To the mind of the politician the only
thing to be done with such questions is
to settle them in the interests of the
party. The question of righteousness
is merely incidental.
So this liquor question is getting to
Re awkward, for it will not down.
And time is running on-time, the
wonder work er-time, the revolution
ist. Eighteen lightweight is getting
intentionally near, and contrary to
the expectation of the politician this
awkward liquor question has not been
hustled out of the way. In fact, it is a
good deal more in the way than it was
three years ago. And now parties
must commit themselves. For that let
us be thankful. Three years ago it
hardly seemed to be necessary that par
ties should be squarely committed on
this question. But the on-the-fence
policy will not work in 1888. A great
many thoughtless men have been made
thinkers during the last three years.
For that. too. let us be thankful. And
more men than ever before will de-
mand sight of the banner under
which they are marching.
The politicians must be ready for
the great struggle. and it is already
manifest about what the attitude of the
three great parties will be. The atti-
tude of the Prohibition party is never
doubtful. 1t is ceaslessly and uncom-
promisingly against the liquor traffic.
The attitude of the Democratic party is
hardly less doubtful. Its national pol
icy will be that of 4 friend to the liquor
traffic. The attitude of the Republican
party is less pronounced. That is its
weakness. But yet it is hardly too
soon to predict that the national policy
of the Republican part: will be in fav-
or of high license. That satisfies the
liquor men, and that seems to satisfy a
great many temperance men who are
ready to believe that high license means
restriction. and that restriction is the
road to prohibition. Temperance men
of America, are you really satisfied
that the way to abolish an evil is to
protect it by law? More than this, do
you believe that the best way to edu-
cate the public is to blind its eyes with
gold? The name of Charles Loring
Brace is we'll known as a student of
social and political prob
lens. Read what he says of American
slavery: ''In the South. where at first
there had been deep moral opposition
to the system, gradually, through its
profitable returns, the pride of class
which it nourished and the political
power it conferred, there came to be
strong conviction and even passion in
its favor. As time went on the minds
of thoughtful and otherwise good men
in the Southern States became COM
pletely perverted and led astray on this
great moral evil.
What perverted men and led them
astray? The prospects of Gold and
Political Power. that strengthened
Slavery until at last the price paid for
its abolition was countless treasure, a
sea of blood and endless sorrow. Tenn
perance men of America, can we not |
learn this lesson without having to pay |
the price a second time? The liquor |
traffic is getting stronger. In the end
it will have to be put down. Let US
beware of trying to make Wrong,
Right, for the sake of Gold. And of !
for ourselves and for our
children desolation.-M Y. Voice.
THERE is more honor, thousand
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